Rahul Gandhi is 'on leave', can't appear for RSS defamation case

Mar 31, 2015

A court inBhiwandi asked the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to appear before it latest by May 8 in a defamation case filed against him by an RSS functionary for allegedly saying that Mahatma Gandhi's assassin was an RSS member.Magistrate D P Kale had sought Rahul's presence before the court on or before May 8, the next date of hearing.Rahul's lawyers gave an undertaking that he would be present on or before May 8. Rahul's counsel Prassad Dhakephalkar told the court,"Gandhi is on leave even from Parliament at the moment. He has been on leave since February even before the Bombay high...